This thesis explores some issues relating to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa,
attending especially to language variety and language attitudes. The focus is on the
teaching of language, specifically English, ...

Rightly or wrongly, the need to promote multilingualism in South Africa poses no immediate threat to the dominance of English. While the language has the power to confer material and other benefits, its dominant role in ...

The changing circumstances in South Africa up to date can be seen as the inspiration for
the investigation of how language teaching, and language learning is affected by this.
Dramatic reform is taking place in South ...

It is the contention of this study that historical factors surrounding education
and the teaching of African languages in South Africa have led to there being
deficiencies in second-language Zulu courses for learners of ...

In June 1991 Parliament passed the following amendment to paragraph (b) of Section 3 of Act 90 of 1979: that the language or languages to be used as the medium of
instruction at a school and the extent and duration of ...

Various sets of nouns have been established as noun classes in Setswana as well as
in other African languages. Generally speaking, a class of nouns is made up of
words that have a specific prefix and are in turn linked ...

The central concern of the research study is the academic underachievement of the
student. The problem is probed by looking at the language and learning difficulties
encountered by the student as he strives to cope with ...

The time between the rhyming of the Psalms in 1936 and the subsequent rhyming
thereof in 2001 is approximately 70 years. From 1936 to 2001 society has undergone
drastic change. Such societal change normally influences ...

The aim of this dissertation is to establish the relevance, if not, of the debate
surrounding standard and non-standard language with specific reference to the
current South African situation.
Some background to the ...

The movement of former township learners to suburban schools has resulted in more
non-native learners taking English as a Home Language (EHL). In some suburban
schools, the former township learners are now in the majority, ...

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of errors in the
writing of second language learners. The concepts of language
error and standard language are discussed briefly.
The Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis ...

Problems regarding language requirements set by legislation, the law profession and
academic institutions, are discussed.
The main purpose of the study is to do a needs analysis of law students' needs, to
communicate ...

The language needs for non-mother tongue speakers of Afrikaans.
The study of Afrikaans by non-mother tongue speakers of Afrikaans is not as simple
as it sometimes appears.
The aim of this study is to identify the specific ...

This study proposes that there has been and will be a need for Afrikaans Foreign
Language (Third Language) as a subject in South African schools. Multilingual
proposals and models for school education advocate the inclusion ...

The gold rush to the Witwatersrand Goldfields in 1886 attracted a diverse
cross-section of European settlers. 10 % of this new community consisted of
Germans.
As Johannesburg developed, the need for education (schools) ...

1. The aim of the study
The primary aim of this study was to ascertain whether or not a multiple-choice test
can effectively assess English mother-tongue competence. Because the testing of
language is at issue, the study ...

In terms of the new Constitution (Act 108 of 1996) South Africa has 11 official
languages (RSA, 1996: 4). Because of past political imperatives, this de facto and
constitutional multilingualism makes South Africa one of ...